MARY, OUR MOTHER: At Angelus, Pope encourages Haitian and Iraqi disaster victims

Sunday, November 14, 2010

At Angelus, Pope encourages Haitian and Iraqi disaster victims :: Catholic News Agency (CNA

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Vatican City, Nov 14, 2010 / 11:46 am (CNA/EWTN News).- Benedict XVI noted several special causes for prayer after he recited the Angelus at noon on Nov. 14. He particularly expressed his �closeness� to the people of Haiti now suffering from a cholera epidemic and he prayed for peace in war-torn Iraq.

The Haitian epidemic comes in the aftermath of last January�s devastating earthquake.

"I encourage all of those who are doing their best for this new emergency and, while I assure my particular memory in prayer, I make an appeal to the international community so that it might generously aid those populations," the pontiff remarked.

He also remembered the people of Iraq during his greetings as he invoked "the gift of peace" for their nation. Iraqi Christians have suffered greatly in the past two weeks. An Al Qaida-linked group massacred churchgoers at Baghdad�s Syrian Catholic cathedral on Oct. 31 and Christian homes in the city were targeted for bombings just days later.

In his words after the Angelus, he also spoke of the coming "Vigil for All Nascent Human Life" scheduled for Nov. 27. The prayer vigil will coincide with the celebration of first vespers on the First Sunday of Advent.

"The time of preparation for Holy Christmas is a favorable moment to invoke divine protection over each human being called to existence, also as thanksgiving to God for the gift of life received from our parents," he said.

He has invited all Churches and individual parishes and church groups to take part. The U.S. bishops have provided different options for the observance of the prayer vigil including different combinations of the Evening Prayer, a Marian procession, the Rosary and Benediction.

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PSALM 71 SPEAKS TO MY HEART

Forsake Me Not When My Strength Is Spent

In you, O Lord, do I take refuge;
let me never be put to shame!
In your righteousness deliver me and rescue me;
incline your ear to me, and save me!

Be to me a rock of refuge,
to which I may continually come;
you have given the command to save me,
for you are my rock and my fortress.

Rescue me, O my God, from the hand of the wicked,
from the grasp of the unjust and cruel man.
For you, O Lord, are my hope,
my trust, O Lord, from my youth.
Upon you I have leaned from before my birth;
you are he who took me from my mother's womb.
My praise is continually of you.

I have been as a portent to many,
but you are my strong refuge.
My mouth is filled with your praise,
and with your glory all the day.
Do not cast me off in the time of old age;
forsake me not when my strength is spent.

For my enemies speak concerning me;
those who watch for my life consult together
and say, “God has forsaken him;
pursue and seize him,
for there is none to deliver him.”

O God, be not far from me;
O my God, make haste to help me!
May my accusers be put to shame and consumed;
with scorn and disgrace may they be covered
who seek my hurt.

But I will hope continually
and will praise you yet more and more.
My mouth will tell of your righteous acts,
of your deeds of salvation all the day,
for their number is past my knowledge.

With the mighty deeds of the Lord God I will come;
I will remind them of your righteousness, yours alone.

O God, from my youth you have taught me,
and I still proclaim your wondrous deeds.

So even to old age and gray hairs,
O God, do not forsake me,
until I proclaim your might to another generation,
your power to all those to come.
Your righteousness, O God,
reaches the high heavens.
You who have done great things,
O God, who is like you?

You who have made me see many troubles and calamities
will revive me again;
from the depths of the earth
you will bring me up again.
You will increase my greatness
and comfort me again.

I will also praise you with the harp
for your faithfulness, O my God;
I will sing praises to you with the lyre,
O Holy One of Israel.
My lips will shout for joy,
when I sing praises to you;
my soul also, which you have redeemed.

And my tongue will talk of your righteous help all the day long,
for they have been put to shame and disappointed
who sought to do me hurt.

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